Tag: Alma

The seed of Amulon clearly had a desire to kill as they moved from killing believing Lamanites to killing neighbors to killing more Lamanites who were starting to believe. Honestly they probably killed less because of any excitement and more because they were afraid of losing power if the people around them began to believe.

The whole purpose of attacking the believers was not simply to kill them but to frighten then into submission do they would abandon their faith. When the campaign of naked aggression failed to terrorize them, indeed failed to even make them try to protect themselves it was the less committed of those in the terrorizing…

When the king of the Lamanites was converted to the Lord he was excited to share his new faith with his people and so he decreed that his people should not abuse or detain the Nephite missionaries.

It seems obvious to me that after his encounter with Ammon the father of Lamoni thought about that experience—what he had heard from admin and Lamoni and what he had observed interacting with Ammon—such that he was prepared to believe by the time Aaron arrived in his land.

The apostate neighbors spread both the neighbor language and the prevailing arguments against the church to their Lamanite neighbors. Why find up with a new argument when the old one can be recycled.

Lamoni wanted to take Ammon up to meet his father but the Lord called Ammon to the land of Middoni. Little did Ammon or Lamoni know that Ammon would meet the father of Lamoni on the road to Middoni. In a similar vein, the father of Lamoni wanted Ammon and his brethren to come see…

I wonder if part of how Ammon knew that Lamoni would arise the third day was because that was how long Alma had been unconscious. I’m sure he was sensitive enough that the Lord could have inspired him to know of a different threshold of time but similarly, the Lord was capable of working on…

I wonder if Ammon remembered to prepare the king’s horses because he considered the possibility that conducting the king to the great might bring even greater opportunities for him or that he might meet some of his brethren in the process? Regardless of what he might have thought his motives were undoubtedly pure.

I wonder what Alma knew of the sons of Mosiah when he met them on the road? Had he heard any news from their time among the Lamanites? Had they heard of him being made chief judge or of him stepping down from that position?

It is not always the case that justice from the Lord is swift as it was when Ammonihah was destroyed Ina day. What is consistent is that when justice from the Lord is served it is sure—the Lord cannot be denied when He determined that the time for repentance has passed.